Posted on 10/30/2011 1:37:13 PM PDT by neverdem
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — The letter that arrived in Kim Jastremski’s mailbox on County Highway 52 suggested that she stop protesting the possibility of natural gas drilling. It seemed more of a threat than a request.
Computer-generated, unsigned and sent to about 10 other opponents of a practice known as fracking, it compared them to Nazis and said they were being watched while picking up their children at school in their minivans.
Jennifer Huntington’s abuse is more public, like comments online suggesting that people find out where her dairy sells its milk so that they can stop buying it, or the warning that her farm, which has a lease with a gas company, “will fall like a house of cards when your water is poisoned.” She and other drilling proponents have also been called “sellout landowners that prostitute themselves for money.”
The debate over horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the injection of huge quantities of chemically treated water underground to free up natural gas, has become increasingly contentious across the Eastern United States, with dozens of communities passing or considering bans. But that ill will often takes its most intimate form in small towns and rural areas like this one, best known as the home of baseball’s Hall of Fame, where fracking has emerged as the defining, non-negotiable political issue.
The dispute has pitted neighbor against neighbor, and has often set people who live in suburbs or villages against the farmers and landowners who live outside them. The discord is compounded by hard times on both...
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“I think even if individuals here are not incredibly greedy, they are being sucked into a corporate greed that’s at work in our country,” she said. “They’re seeing dollar signs everywhere, and they’re not seeing the bigger picture that they’re harming their neighbors.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
An economy based on consumption will go nowhere fast with expensive energy. After paying more for food, commuting costs, heating and electricity, many folks can only pay for the necessities. They have little or no discretionary income. Cheap energy is also attractive to all energy intensive industries. Whether they realize it or not, advocates for expensive energy are agents of economic sabotage.
If you have C-Span2, check "The Oil Kings," by Andrew Scott Cooper. It's playing now on Cablevision in NYC.
Fracking ping!
En enviro-nazi getting some of her own medicine. She don’t seem to mind her neighbors paying more for energy so she can worship her earth god if you want to talk about selfishness.
Pray for America
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
Whether they realize it or not, advocates for expensive energy are agents of economic sabotage.
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Your run-of-the-mill Greeny may not understand but there is no doubt that “economic sabotage” is the primary goal of the environmental movement. They could care less about the environment, their goal is to destroy our capitalist system and replace it with one designed by their hero Karl Marx.
I small a rat on this one, just like all of the noose-ance stories.
I WOULD PLACE GOOD MONEY ON IT THAT THE LIBTARDS WROTE THESE LETTERS THEMSELVES
These things ALWAYS turn out to be fraud - like the nooses hung on liberal black professors doors that turn out to be planted by the professors themselves
What I don’t understand is why the neighbors of these morons have not cut their utilities. You know, dug up and cut the natural gas lines, chainsawed the power poles, capped the line from the propane tank, punched a hole in the fuel oil tank, etc. Preferably just before a severe winter storm.
I WOULD PLACE GOOD MONEY ON IT THAT THE LIBTARDS WROTE THESE LETTERS THEMSELVES
These things ALWAYS turn out to be fraud - like the nooses hung on liberal black professors doors that turn out to be planted by the professors themselves
Let us never forget that environmentalists were in favor of natural gas until we found it under our feet.
There is no excuse to be uninformed about gas drilling.....it is one of the most safe industrial processes.
SAVE THE WELLS!
Actually, the tactics that are described could be the work of union members. It’s just not unusual to see unions take this kind of action against individuals that they see as standing in the way of jobs.
The problem is that unions don’t try to take a rational approach to justifying the jobs. They just use force and intimidation.
If there is a provable problem with wells as a result of fracking, a good source of public water should be made available for families, paid for by the owner of the wells.
"Personal"?
Don't think so. "Contrived" is more the word.
It’s not eco-nazism if the water in the town is seriously impaired. If the water isn’t a real issue, that’s a different story.
Do you know if there is a real problem with the water?
Jennifer Huntington's abuse is more public, like comments online suggesting that people find out where her dairy sells its milk so that they can stop buying it, or the warning that her farm, which has a lease with a gas company, "will fall like a house of cards when your water is poisoned." She and other drilling proponents have also been called "sellout landowners that prostitute themselves for money."
Dear Ms. Jastremski:
With all due respect, you are playing the fool.
May I invite you to my home county, Hood County, Texas, in the very midst of the Barnett Shale -- which started all this horizontal drilling and fracking falderal.
Nonetheless, it is still "the perfect place to raise children", it is "replete with chicken coops and bee hives" and "vegetable gardens" are in profusion.
Now, she says, she stays up at night crying over what she sees as the possibility of polluted water, an industrialized landscape and having to leave her home as its value plummets.
Lady, there is no such thing as "polluted water" in our neighborhood. You can still swim in the Brazos. And in the Paluxy -- after the Spring rains. The landscape remains pretty much what it was before here in the crosstimbers -- alternating woods, grasses, limestone outcroppings, creek bottoms. Yeah, we've got a gas plant or two -- creating even more jobs -- but nothing that makes smoke.
Rather than plummet, land values have skyrocketed.
So, I wonder what, exactly, is your objection to horizontal drilling and fracking in the Marcellus shale? After all, we've been fracking down here in Texas since the fifties -- and there has never been a single proven case of groundwater contamination. Not that your enviro-wackos buddies haven't tried, mind you. But, you see, there seems to be absolutely no proof of it ever happening.
Instead, the Barnett shale development has created thousands of jobs, enhanced land values, made many families wealthy and boosted the economy of every town in the area.
That's not a bad outcome, is it?
I've been to Cooperstown and I've stayed in Middlefield. It is, indeed, a beautiful area. It will be no less beautiful if the Marcellus shale development is allowed to continue. Plus, it will be a lot more prosperous area.
Anybody who insisted on blocking this development would be a fool. A greedy fool, in fact,, filled with their own self-righteousness and fueled by a flawed ideology.
“Do you know if there is a real problem with the water?”
We have been fracking in Oklahoma for almost 70 years and haven’t damaged a water supply yet. Many think that fracking is a new technology, but it has been around for a long time. Horizontal drilling is relatively new but it has been around for at least 25 yrs that I know of. Of course the methods have improved.
http://www.northernoil.com/drilling.php
For those who want to see how horzontal drilling and fracking is done.
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